Pistons dance team calendar draws protests

[alamo50]

American Decency Association upset by cheerleaders in swimsuits

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060110/060110_dancers_hmed_3p.hlarge.jpg
NBAE/Getty Images file
Profits from the sale of the Pistons' Automation dance team's calendar will go to charity.

Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET Jan. 10, 2006


AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - A 2006 calendar showing scantily clad women from the Detroit Pistons dance team has drawn criticism from a Christian group.

The calendar shows members of the Pistons dance team Automation in swimsuits.

Last month, the American Decency Association started an e-mail campaign to Pistons’ officials, saying the calendar is inappropriate for a team supported by families, women and young children.

“To me, this is a form of prostitution,” said Barbara Rotary of Pontiac, who said she saw the calendar while Christmas shopping and alerted the group. “The Pistons are profiting from using women’s bodies this way.”

The association is based in Fremont, about 40 miles north of Grand Rapids.

Detroit president Tom Wilson said the calendar is artistic and tasteful and contains images anyone could see on the beach.

“We’ve had far more positive comments than negative,” Wilson told The Detroit News. “The girls look beautiful. They don’t look sleazy or cheap.”

The calendar shows the dancers posing around Michigan. The team gave away most of the 8,000 calendars at a December game, while others are on sale for $13 in team stores. Buyers must be at least 18 years old. Profits go to charity.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10793813/)

:stfu

[God]

American Decency Association upset by cheerleaders in swimsuits

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060110/060110_dancers_hmed_3p.hlarge.jpg
NBAE/Getty Images file
Profits from the sale of the Pistons' Automation dance team's calendar will go to charity.

Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET Jan. 10, 2006


AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - A 2006 calendar showing scantily clad women from the Detroit Pistons dance team has drawn criticism from a Christian group.

The calendar shows members of the Pistons dance team Automation in swimsuits.

Last month, the American Decency Association started an e-mail campaign to Pistons’ officials, saying the calendar is inappropriate for a team supported by families, women and young children.

“To me, this is a form of prostitution,” said Barbara Rotary of Pontiac, who said she saw the calendar while Christmas shopping and alerted the group. “The Pistons are profiting from using women’s bodies this way.”

The association is based in Fremont, about 40 miles north of Grand Rapids.

Detroit president Tom Wilson said the calendar is artistic and tasteful and contains images anyone could see on the beach.

“We’ve had far more positive comments than negative,” Wilson told The Detroit News. “The girls look beautiful. They don’t look sleazy or cheap.”

The calendar shows the dancers posing around Michigan. The team gave away most of the 8,000 calendars at a December game, while others are on sale for $13 in team stores. Buyers must be at least 18 years old. Profits go to charity.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10793813/)

:stfu
This thread is USELESS without pics!

[Brutalis]

I remember seeing Pistons cheerleaders wearing some skanky stuff in last years playoffs. They need to control that shit and understand kids are watching.

[SpursWoman]

Buyers must be at least 18 years old


Huh?

I couldn't care one way or another, but if it's for charity, it seems to me they'd make more money with something that would appeal to everyone, not just one particular gender....but that's just me, I guess. :spin

[Marklar MM]

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/automotion_cover_800.jpg

All I could find, but I didn't really look.

[Mixability]

Huh?

My thoughts exactly! 18 and up?!?! Even the calendar booths up in the middle of the malls have black cards covering up the swimsuit calendars. I guess some Mom's didn't like their sons getting lost in the calendar aisle. :lol

[lilmads]

I agree with you guys.. It shouldn't be 18 and older since it's for charity.. it should be something for all ages

[Kori Ellis]

Have you ever seen the Eagles cheerleaders calendar?? This is nothing.

Some people just need to have something to complain about.

[Pedro]

Right click save as, right click save as. :lol

Similar to prostitution? You mean how like when you take a new woman out for a meal and she sleeps with you that night? Or when you buy her something at her favorite Saks and she blows you? :lmao

[SpursWoman]

I'm not complaining ... I just think it's odd that if you want to raise money for charity, you'd want to raise as much as you could, and targeting only one specific group doesn't sound very smart. Or does sex-for-charity...just sounds wrong somehow. :lol


What's the charity, anyway? The Erectile Dysfunction Foundation? :lol

[Kori Ellis]

I'm not talking about you complaining. I'm talking about the people who made this a news story.

[Mixability]

What's the charity, anyway? The Erectile Dysfunction Foundation? :lol

I guess they wanted to offer the cure instead of just raising money for it? :lol

[lilmads]

^lmao

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/automotion_cover_800.jpg

All I could find, but I didn't really look.

Well, it's certainly named appropriately. I experienced a little "automotion" after looking at that pic!!

[Marklar MM]

I believe it goes to the Pistons Palace Foundation or something like that...who knows.

[ALVAREZ6]

Have you ever seen the Eagles cheerleaders calendar?? This is nothing.

Yes I have :tu

[Mixability]

Yes I have :tu and I enjoyed every sticky page of it!

Addendum. :lol

[ALVAREZ6]

I fuck men
????

[Cool2LOVE]

:lol^^^ at both of you. :lmao

[Mixability]

????

:lol, cmon at least try. This is like picking on the slow kid in school. I'm sorry. :depressed
:lmao

[emo serb]

http://www.nba.com/pistons/dance/automotion_jan06_800.html
http://www.nba.com/pistons/dance/automotion_dec05_800.html
these are the only ones they have for now, including the one from above.

[alamo50]

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/automotion_dec05_800.jpg

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/automotion_jan06_800.jpg

Those protesting dykes are right.
THIS IS PURE FILTH!!!

Now can we get the racsists in here to protest the exploitation chapter too?

[alamo50]

Here you go:

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/mb_automotion_trio.jpg

Detroit police actually was present on the crime scene of the photo shoot.

[SpursWoman]

You know I love you, but I think you're overreacting just a tad. :makeout :lol

[Cool2LOVE]

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/mb_automotion_trio.jpg


wassup bluebaby. i'm cool2love. :lol

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

Just another bunch of hypocritical zealots shouting, "Your sins are worse than mine!"...

[tlongII]

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/automotion_cover_800.jpg

All I could find, but I didn't really look.

I'd hit it.

[Marklar MM]

I'd hit it.

You would hit just about anything.

[Mixability]

I'd hit it.

the sky is blue

what else is new.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

“To me, this is a form of prostitution,” said Barbara Rotary of Pontiac, who said she saw the calendar while Christmas shopping and alerted the group.

Dear Barbara Rotary,

Here's $20, bend over and I'll show you prostitution. Stupid bitch.

[PM5K]

Oh my God, it's a swimsuit calendar, do they protest every photo of women in swimsuits?

[ShoogarBear]

Deeeeeeetrooooit Baaaaaaaaathing Suuuuuuuuuits!!!!

[FrankWhite]

^:lol nice.

[SpursWoman]

:lol

[ShoogarBear]

Or, less subtly:

http://www.nba.com/media/pistons/automotion_dec05_800.jpg




Deeeeeeetroooooooit Baaaaaaaasketbaaaaaaaaallllllls!!

[ALVAREZ6]

Or, less subtly:






Deeeeeeetroooooooit Baaaaaaaasketbaaaaaaaaallllllls!!

:lol